Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On 2025-06-08, Marc Haber wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Widescreen always felt a gimmick to me.

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I find it interesting how many old men here praise themselves for not
needing the advances that we have made since 1984.
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For computers, it leads to wasted space.
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Open up many webpages and notice how much blank space is on the sides.
I've just gone to news.com.au, and HALF the screen is just blank white
space.
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Mobiles are portrait, heavily so, desktops widescreen, heavily so, so
this results in just a mismatch.

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On the other hand, THAT sounds like the only thing you ever use is a
web browser.
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I like it to have three shells side by side without covering each
other. I like it to easily fit a shell at the side of the browser
displying the docs without covering.

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This - seeing it as an increase of horizontal space - only works if you
buy a display larger enough so that the height is identical to that of
the non-widescreen display. Otherwise, we're dealing with loss of
vertical space.